P.M. NEWS MONDAY 12-5-22
The Broome County District Attorney’s office announced that 68-year-old Alan Geller of Binghamton was found guilty of Forcible Touching. Geller was a Physician’s Assistant who was accused of groping a women patient inappropriately while conducting a physical examination in December of 2021. Geller faces up to 1 year in jail at sentencing.
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The Chenango SPCA announced that the Bissell Empty the Shelters adoption special is back this year until December 11th. Bissell is promoting the adoption of cats and dogs from the shelter by donating $25 toward the adoption of cats and $50 toward the adoption of dogs, Donations can be made online at ChenangoSPCA.org/donate, by calling 607-334-9724 extension 7.
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A Recruitment Event is being held at the Norwich CDO Workforce this Thursday, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at 1 O’Hara Drive. The Raymond Corporation & T-Squared Custom Millwork are recruiting, interested workers are asked to Call the CDO Workforce Center at 607-334-2201, ext. 127 to schedule an interview time.
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Santa’s Mailbox will be in 2 locations, in front of Roasted Coffee in Sidney & Bob’s Diner in Bainbridge for the the Christmas season, for children to send letters to Santa, Teri Schunk of 4 Towns Forward explains:
(Teri Schunk 12-5-22)
More information is available at the 4Towns Forward Facebook page.
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State Police arrested 73 year old Brooks Anderson of Albany for Unlawfully Fleeing a Police Officer in a Motor Vehicle. Anderson was observed traveling at a high rate of speed by a trooper on I-88 in Worcester, the trooper attempted a traffic stop but Anderson fled into the town of Oneonta, where he was boxed in by Police vehicles and then refused to exit the vehicle. Anderson was ultimately taken into custody and was processed, he will appear in the Town of Worcester Town Court on December 20th.
A.M. News Monday 12-5-22
The new Oneonta VA Clinic at Foxcare opens today, with full service beginning tomorrow, Peter Potter of the Albany VA clinic told WCDO News that a Doctor will be there on an interim basis until a permanent Doctor is named:
(Peter Potter 12-5-22)
The VA clinic replaces the Bainbridge VA clinic which had experienced a 76% decline in visitations in recent years.
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State Police and local law enforcement agencies issued a record 3,062 tickets from April 1 to November 17 of this year as part of Operation Hardhat. Last year, Police issued 2,336 tickets, this year’s tickets, included over 1200 were for speeding, 426 for using a cell phone while driving, 124 were for violating the Move Over Law, 229 tickets were issued in the Southern Tier.
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State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett will resign from the position effective January 1st. Dr. Bassett announced that she will be returning to the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, which will require her to move to Massachusetts, a new Health Commissioner will be chosen shortly.
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Vestal Police have arrested an unidentified 17 year old for 2nd degree Manslaughter, Criminal possession of a forged instrument & 3 counts of reckless endangerment, for being the driver of a vehicle that crashed on November 24th. 18 year old Kadin Abdullah was pronounced dead at the scene of that accident.
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